Seasonal variability in concentration, composition, age, and fluxes of particulate organic carbon exchanged between the floodplain and Amazon River

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 119-130

  Moreira Turcq, Patricia ^a   Bonnet, Marie Paule ^b   Amorim, Marcelo ^c   Bernardes, Marcelo ^c   Lagane, Christelle ^b   Maurice, Laurence ^b   Perez, Marcela ^c   Seyler, Patrick ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^c FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonia; C N ratio; floodplains; mass balance; organic carbon

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; LAKES; ORGANIC CARBON; RIVERS;

AMAZONIA; C/N RATIO; CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FLOOD-PLAINS; MASS BALANCE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTERS;

FLOODS;

AGE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLOODPLAIN; FLUX MEASUREMENT; MACROPHYTE; MASS BALANCE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER POLLUTION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AMAZON RIVER;

EID: 84881054264     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gbc.20022     Document Type: Article

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